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In this moment it would be better if people would read some Wittgenstein and Roy Harris, IMHO.
by ttpphd 4y ago
In this moment it would be better if people would read some Wittgenstein and Roy Harris, IMHO.
- masswerk 4y agoWhy not both? Things like philosophy or metapsychology tend to be prismatic, each framework comes with advantages and disadvantages and boundaries of its own. (A turn towards the dogmatic is something I'm pretty much expecting from the current launch of AI anyway, simply, because the productions systematically favor the semantic center. So it may be worth putting some generality against this, rather than being overly selective.)
- ttpphd 4y agoLol well to answer your question literally, I think integrationist linguistics and Wittgenstein's thoughts about language use as a social action are way more relevant to understanding what's happening with LLMs (and people's naive reactions to them) than what was suggested previously as background reading.
- masswerk 4y agoMind that we're are not, by any means, at any state of social interaction with LLMs. (Any such thing would be a mere hallucination on the user's side.) However, these are semantic fields, with whatever consequence comes with this. (So there may have been something said on this already, in what was known as the linguistic turn.)